Two-For-One and Other Sales - January 27, 2008
by Pravin on January 27th, 2008 in shopping.
There are a lot of HD DVD players out in the wild, and the lowered prices on them helps to get more of them distributed. But even when there were only a few hundred thousand users, one of the biggest problems has been the high cost of movie ownership. The “buy one get one free” deals on HD DVD movies only started happening around Christmas, and that has made it difficult for HD DVD owners to build their collections.
As expected, Best Buy started the latest BOGO (buy one get one free) deal today, Sunday, January 27, on 14 titles. You buy one, and get a second one of equal or lower cost for free. Movies are $25 and $30, so the BOGO math means you’ll end up spending half that amount per title in the end. The catch is that you can only pick from 14 titles (but some people get lucky and can get a manager to approve a movie that’s not on the list).
The deal runs through February 8, which is actually a longer time that we’d expect on such promotions2. The easy way to guarantee that you can get the more popular titles like Transformers and Shrek the Third is to order online and pick them up in the store, instead of visiting a store to try your luck.
Anything else on sale? Amazon still has that sale on a bunch of movies at around $16 each. Maybe they’ll get into the sales mood and start something new and exciting as the week goes along. Buy.com got into the spirit and is offering most of those Amazon movies for about a buck cheaper. Finally, Deep Discount still has a lot of titles for $16 and less.
- Best Buy buy-one-get-one from January 27 to February 2
- Save up to 53% off on Select HD DVDs at Amazon
- HD DVDs on sale at Buy.com
- Movies under $16 at DeepDiscount.com
January 27th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
There is an important anouncement about circuit city dropping their HDDVD line. Any info about it?
January 27th, 2008 at 8:03 pm
I haven’t heard that there’s an announcement about it, but some people have reported that they’ve seen players listed as under clearance. I’m sure there’ll be more official word on Monday after all the usual press contact people get to their offices to return emails.
January 28th, 2008 at 5:11 am
The Circuit City thing was a pricing error. It has been corrected.
http://gizmodo.com/349351/circuit-city-clearing-out-hd-dvd-players-for-cheap-for-ever
January 28th, 2008 at 9:47 pm
I love HD dvd and i hate how its not doing very good at the moment. maybe disney will go hd or warner will change its mind
January 28th, 2008 at 10:11 pm
Those are two things that are unlikely to happen. Disney is solidly Blu and Warner would have to make up for a lot of the damage that’s been done by them alone.
Toshiba is certainly not going out quietly, and the more likely scenario to hope for is that the supporting studios step up their releases and keep the format viable for as long as possible.
We all get to see how this turns out, and whether the “inevitable” happens sooner than later, and who knows if there’s some other plot twist coming along.
January 29th, 2008 at 11:21 pm
well all i can say is keep supporting the format write toshiba and buy movies andshow the bean counters we are here and want this typ of hi def if we all do this we can win and every one will benifit buy saving a few dollars blueray is more expensive maybe more advertising buy hd-dvd will do the trick … im sure sony will adver..blu ray during superbowl .common hd-dvd do the same and get some actors doing it !!